ESTATE OF PIERPONT v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 86052.

21 T.C.M. 1515 (1962)

T.C. Memo. 1962-286

Estate of Mervin G. Pierpont, Deceased, Union Trust Company of Maryland and Ernest L. Poyner, Executors, v. Commissioner.

United States Tax Court.

Filed November 30, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. McDaniel, Jr., Esq., and Mannes F. Greenberg, Esq., for the petitioner. Joseph N. Ingolia, Esq., for the respondent.


Memorandum Findings of Fact and Opinion

DRENNEN, Judge:

Respondent determined a deficiency in estate tax due from petitioner in the amount of $32,542.48.

The only issue for decision is whether the estate of Mervin G. Pierpont is entitled to a marital deduction equal to the value of property devised and bequeathed in trust for the benefit of the surviving spouse of decedent, who was given under decedent's will a testamentary power of appointment with...

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